HRMN 3841 - Union Certification and Negotiation Report

This report analyzes the process of union organization within the context of the Write Way Stationary Company. It details the essential steps involved in forming a union, including the formation of a committee, establishing a framework to address employee issues, obtaining union membership cards, winning the election, and negotiating a contract. The report also outlines the restrictions imposed on both the employer and the union during the certification drive, as well as the consequences of violating these restrictions. Finally, it examines the negotiation process that follows union certification, focusing on key issues like pay, benefits, working hours, and leave policies. The report highlights the importance of preparing an agenda, managing emotions, and supporting claims with evidence during negotiations, providing a comprehensive overview of unionization and collective bargaining in the workplace.

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Part A:
Describe the steps of union organization:
The first step associated with the matter of union organization will provide bird’s eye
view of the whole process. In order to elaborate the steps of union organization first, it is
essential to throw a little light on the topic of union organization. A union or labor organization
is formed with the membership as well as participation of workers of same trade or organization.
Union organization occurs with the purpose of advancing the interests of its members as well as
addressing the issues faced by the employees of all the departments of the organization
(Markowitz, 2015).
Step 1: Formation of Union Organization Committee:
There are several steps that should be adopted at the time of organizing a union. One of
them is to form a committee which will organize the union. The committee will represent all the
major departments of the organization. The committee will also reflect racial ethnical as well as
gender diversity. The members of the committee will be selected from the employees of different
department of the Write Way Stationary Company. The members will be selected depending on
the parameters like- knowledge associated with the employee rights, knowledge associated with
the rights of the employer, Knowledge associated with the structure of the organization, work
experience and so on. The selected members should be capable of taking the responsibility to
represent their respective departments. Moreover, they should be sensitive to the issues affecting
employees of the same department or the other.
Step: 2 Adoption of a robust framework or program to address issues:

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The committee developed with an aim to organize the union, should adopt as issue,
agenda as well as strategy. More specifically, it can be stated that, the coma robust framework,
so that issues affecting the employees can be addressed. In this case, the issues, which will be
addressed by the union are -issues related to wage, wage discrimination, benefits provided to the
employees, work environment or work culture affecting the employees. This step will also
involve the adoption of relevant agenda by the union. For instance, ensuring equal rights for all
employees, is one considered to be pone of the popular agendas that the unions generally adopt.
Step 3: Made the majority Sign-up on Union membership Cards:
Members are considered to be the strength of the Union. This is the reason why the
members of the committee are always eager to make the majority of the employees of all
department to join the union and Sign-up on Union membership Cards. In other words, the
employees who are the members of the committee constructed for union organization, always
attempt to make the union more powerful by asking their co-workers to participate in the UE as
well as support the programs arranged by the union by signing the Union membership cards.
Thus, the goal of the committee is to make a sizable majority of the employees to sign up the
union cards. The cards signed by the employees are considered as petition, especially in the case
of election of state as well as federal labor board.
Step 4: Win the Election arranged by the Union:
In the process of union organizing, election is a vital step. After the cards of the membership are
signed up by the sizable majority of the employees, the signed cards will then be used as the
petition, especially for the purpose of the Union election. The election will be supported by the
labor board of the specific State. Labor board will take a little time of about a few weeks. In
order to determine members who are eligible to participate in the voting process. The schedule of

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the election will also be determined by the labor board of the State. The winning of the union in
the election is dependent of several factors- the committee should have a strong as well as
diverse organizing power and also the ability to combat the anti-union campaign of the employer
(Roy, 2017).
Step: 5 Negotiation of the Contract:
After a union wins an election, it arranges a campaign for the employees with an aim to
negotiate a contract. This is a significant step of union organization. This contracts are basically
the documentation of the process which will be adopted by the union to solve disputes related to
employee benefits, wages.
In this step union certification also occurs. The certification process adopted by the union
made the union a bargaining agent to the employees. Union certification reshapes the employee-
employer relationship. Certification is important no for the unionization of the employer. This
can be explained with the help of an instance. Suppose, the union of Write Way Stationary
Company, demonstrates that 45% of the employees in a predetermined bargaining unit will be in
favor of being represented by the union under the certification. In this case, the unionized
employers will not be able to negotiate individually with the employees represented by the
union. However, in the process of being certified as the bargaining agent associated with a
bargaining unit, the union should follow a set of steps. Collecting the highest number of
membership cards is the first as well as the most significant step to be followed to earn
certification. The second step the filing of application associated with certification to the labor
relation board. The third step is referred to as “Secret-Ballot Vote”. The application is then
reviewed by the labor relation board. After the review is complete the Board orders for the
commencement of vote of the affected employees which occurs on the fifth day following the

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date of application. The fourth step is the determination of the result of the vote. Thi9s can be
elaborated with the help of an example For instance, if a pre-determined bargaining unit consists
of 100 employees, among which 10 employees selected for voting, in this case, if nearly 6 or
more workers cast their vote in the support of union, then the union will be called ‘certified’ and
able to become the representative of 100 employees (Mrozowicki, 2014).
Part B:
Restrictions that apply to Employer:
 Once the union achieved vote-based certification, the employer cannot deny or object the
participation of the stipulated percentage of the employees in the bargaining unit.
 Employers at Write Way Stationary Company cannot threaten the employees by
indicating to the loss of their jobs.
 Employer at Write Way Stationary Company, cannot intimidate the employees that they
may shut the firm down.
 Employer at Write Way Stationary Company, cannot interrogate employees regarding
their position in the context of unionization.
 Employers at Write Way Stationary Company are restricted not to avoid the claim of the
union to arrange meetings for negotiation. Employers are bound to follow the employee
benefit structure, incentive structure as well as leave policies suggested by the labor
relation board during the certification process.
 Employers are restricted not to conduct any behavioral discrimination from the
employees of diverse ethno cultural diversity (Holgate Simms & Tapia, 2018).

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Restrictions that apply to Union:
 The union at Write Way Stationary Company cannot misuse their power and call for
irrelevant disputes.
 The union at Write Way Stationary Company, cannot threaten the employer as well as
the management during the commencement of negotiation.
 The union at Write Way Stationary Company, cannot misuse their power to call for
innumerable strikes, which will curb the production level of the
 The union at Write Way Stationary Company, will not be allowed to impose any
allegation on the employer or the higher authority without the demonstration or
submission of a strong and relevant evidence.
 The union at Write Way Stationary Company, can not reveal the secrets of the
organization to the rival in return of money, or cannot be disloyal to the organization.
Consequences for the violation of restrictions:
In the case of any wage related description bribing the employees for disobeying unions,
he labor relation board will take the charge of solving the matter by penalizing employers at
Write Way Stationary Company, only after the production of significant evidences by th
employees as well as unions. The penalty will be in terms of compensation, imprisonment, or the
ejection of the employer from his position (Kjellberg & Ibsen, 2016).
On the other hand, if the unions violates the restriction, the labor relation board of the
specific state will look for strong evidence produced by the organization or the employer and
after the offense is proved, the board may penalize the union in terms of compensation of the

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members, or imprisonment of the members. Again the labor relation board may orde to dismiss
the union (Klatt, Rundlöf & Smith, 2016).
Part C:
Negotiation between the union as well the employer occurs due to the Key issues like scarcity of
the facilities associated with pay and benefits which affect the employees substantially, hours of
work, sick leave and vacation time, and other fringe benefits like pensions as well as health care
benefits for the employees.
 There are several steps that makes negotiation effective
 Approaching at the right time to the managers as well as the employers for negotiation
 Prepare the agenda properly and represent in an apt as well as impactful mannaer sduring
negotiation.
 Keep control of the emotions
 Ability of the union to support their claim with evidences as well as facts and benefits
associated with both the employee and employers sides (Marecek, et al. 2016).

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